Saturday Night Special

First of all I want to apologize for not having my camera with me... hopefully I will be able to catch this experience again on digital film.

So Carberry and I decided to head out to American Village which isn't to far from base to grab some chow Saturday night. We went to this little mexican place. I ordered Taco Rice which is pretty much amazing. It is yellow rice with ground beef on top and lettuce on top of that. It is served with salsa and some kind of sauce that is a lot like thousand island. Although it wasn't exactly El Cabo's ACP or mexican cheesesteak... I guess it will do.

Carberry ordered the Mexican Lunch. It was two tacos, two enchiladas, some kind of wild rice looking stuff and these little dough things. It was pretty delicious. The taco shells were nothing like what we have back in the states... it was kind of like funnel cake. Not sure how to explain it. Overall delicious.

So then we were heading out and just going to travel up to Camp Foster to visit a couple of friends when we saw a crowd gathering... so we walked over and saw a street performer setting up.

He performed some very interesting things coordinated with his ipod of course. It was sort of like interpretive dance at the beginning with these ninja looking things. Then he took out some glass ball looking things and did some really cool stuff with that. He finished his act juggling fire.

He spoke 98% Japanese the whole time. He would speak for like 5 minutes in Japanese with a one sentence English translation.

He concluded his show with "After this... I ask you for money."

I would dare to say he made at least $200 for his show... or roughly 18000 Yen. He had quite that gathering. He was very interactive with the crowd and was extremely funny. He made a Titanic reference that just about had me rolling on the floor laughing.

Anyways... Hope all is well in the states.

I start MCMAP tomorrow for my grey belt. I'm pretty excited.

Reporting from AFN Okinawa, I'm LCpl Meredith Watts.